Xander van Wijk, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Xander van Wijk, PhD, DABCC, FADLM is a board-certified clinical chemist and Senior Director of Medical and Scientific Affairs at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at the University of Chicago and provided oversight of clinical chemistry, mass spectrometry, blood gas, toxicology, and pharmacogenomic testing. Dr. van Wijk obtained his PhD in medical sciences in the Department of Biochemistry at the Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands and performed postdoctoral research at the University of California San Diego. He completed his fellowship in clinical chemistry in the ComACC accredited training program at the University of California San Francisco. He is an active member of the community and has (co-) authored over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. In 2020, he received the AACC Academy George Grannis Award for Excellence in Research and Scientific Publication, in 2021 he was an ASCP 40 Under Forty honoree, and in 2022 he was part of The Pathologist Power List.
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